Quotes from Roald Dahl

Pero a mí me pareció que había algo raro en su forma de hablar y en su aburrimiento: una sombra malévola en su ceño, y en su actitud una determinación que me produjo cierto desasosiego al mirarle

perfectly calm. "We'll soon get rid of

made a decision. She decided that every time her father or her mother was beastly to her, she would get her own back in some way or another. A small victory or two would help her to tolerate their idiocies and would stop her from going crazy. You must remember that she was still hardly five years old and it is not easy for somebody as small as that to score points against an all-powerful grown-up. Even so, she was determined to have a go. Her father, after what had

In one city, a famous gangster robbed a bank of a thousand pounds and spent the whole lot on Wonka bars that same afternoon. And when the police entered his house to arrest him, they found him sitting on the floor amidst mountains of chocolate, ripping off the wrappers with the blade of a long dagger.

slow at first … just a very gradual inching upwards … up, up, up … inch by inch … getting taller and taller … about an inch every few

There isn't a hope.

And it is such a pleasure, my dear, such a very great pleasure when now and again I open the door and I see someone standing there who is just exactly right.

CHAPTER ONE

Trotter estaba allí con la bolsita en la mano y mirando al anciano. –Y ahora –dijo el anciano–, lo único que tienes que hacer es esto: agarra una jarra grande de agua y mete en ella todas esas cosas verdes. Después, muy lentamente y uno a uno, añade diez pelos de tu cabeza. ¡Eso les gusta!

The children and their parents were too flabbergasted to speak. They were STAGGERED.

They were AWESTRUCK. They were BEWILDERED and DAZZLED.

Los libros le dieron a Matilda un reconfortante y esperanzador mensaje: No estás sola

Then, high above their heads, they heard the call of a wild duck. They all looked up, and they saw the four birds, lovely against the blue sky, flying very close together, heading back to the lake in the woods.

The children and their parents were too flabbergasted to speak. They were STAGGERED. They were AWESTRUCK. They were BEWILDERED and DAZZLED. They were completely bowled over by the HUGENESS of the whole thing. They simply STOOD AND STARED.

The moment he touched it with his fingers, something electric went through his body, and there came to him a powerful premonition that this was a thing that could destroy the peace and happiness of many people.

Mrs. Badger, he cried, So hungry she very near died. But she'll not feel so hollow If only she'll swallow Some cider inside her inside." They were still singing as they rounded the final corner and burst in upon the most wonderful and amazing sight any of them had ever seen. The feast was just beginning. A large dining-room had been hollowed out of the earth, and in the middle of it, seated around a huge table, were no less than twenty-nine animals. They were:

Nobody gets a nervous breakdown or a heart attack from selling kerosene to gentle country folk from the back of a tanker in Somerset on a fine summer's day.

I beg your pardon?

Never do anything by halves if you want to get away with it. Be outrageous. Go the whole hog. Make sure everything you do is so completely crazy it's unbelievable...

MAGIC HAND-FUDGE—WHEN YOU HOLD IT IN YOUR HAND, YOU TASTE IT IN YOUR MOUTH.

If a person has ugly thoughts, it begins to show on their face

Just because we happen not to have actually seen something with our own two little winkles, we think it is not existing.

Don't get excited," said Muggle-Wump.

In the end there's nothing left except a pair of shoes and a bundle of old clothes.